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composite unit. Cross-laminating layers of wood veneer actually improves upon the inherent structural advantages of wood by distributing alongthe-grain strength in both directions.

This idea of "reconstituting" wood fiber to produce better-than-wood building materials has led in more recent times to a technological revolution and the rise of a whole new engineered wood products industry. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, for example, the plywood principle gave rise to what today is a worldwide oriented strand board industry. Instead of solid sheets of wood veneer. OSB is made of wood strands bonded together under heat and pressure in cross-laminated layers.

Other engineered wood products today include wood I-joists, gluedlaminated timber, commonly called glulam, and laminated veneer lumber. These products not only yield superior performance properties but also make better use of precious forest resources.

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And what of softwood plywood's future? The domestic industry has shrunk in recent years in the face of stiff competition from OSB, rising imports, and the decline of national forest timber harvests. However, the industry today, as many observers point out, is technologically advanced, operates more efficiently, and by necessity has cultivated significant high-margin specialty niche markets. In other words, the plywood industry today exhibits the traits of a survivor. It knows how to succeed. And that bodes well for its future.

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